Water

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ID23680480
AuthorsFranklin Obeng‐odoom (0000-0003-3997-7751, University of Helsinki, corresponding author)
Year2019
Pages1-7
Publication date2019-04-15
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118568446.eurs0543
OpenAlexW4251668326
ISBN9781118568446
LanguageEN
References cited17

This entry describes the nature of the water challenge in cities. The entry also identifies causes and posited mainstream solutions, and analyzes the criticisms of mainstream views on the water challenge. Overall, the evidence suggests that the mainstream analyses of the water challenge and its accompanying policy prescriptions of marketization are seriously defective, often leading to a worsening of the water challenge. Neither top‐down state intervention nor exclusive bottom‐up practices of governing water as a commons constitutes a defensible panacea – contrary to popular views. The evidence shows that, while the governance of water as commons provides much better prospects to guarantee the right to water in cities around the world, state support patterned after the political economy of the commons is crucial to addressing the water challenge.

Business · Commons · Corporate governance · Intervention (counseling) · Law and economics · Mainstream · Marketization · Panacea (medicine) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Water resources management and optimization

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